Pamela Anderson reveals the surprising reason she left LA and moved to a remote Canadian island.

Pamela Anderson has one big home improvement.

The 57-year-old “Baywatch” bombshell decided to move to Vancouver Island off the coast of Canada at the start of the pandemic — and now she’s opening up about her decision to do so.

Anderson was born and raised in nearby Ladysmith, British Columbia, and said she was inspired to leave California and return to her roots.

“I think so. [it was] “Back home, you could say, to really look at my life and remember who I was — not what other people were telling me I was,” Anderson said. WWD.com on Tuesday.

“And I didn’t want anything that happened. [in Hollywood] Praise me for me.”

Anderson – who is an avid gardener – added: “I wanted to do something to appreciate myself… I found all these feelings in the rose garden.”

And Anderson’s rose garden has sparked many ideas for his life and business ventures.

Earlier this year, she co-founded the vegan beauty brand, Sonsie Skin, and now her new cleansing mousse is formulated with rose hip essence inspired by flowers that grow in her home garden. is

The model — who has stopped wearing makeup in recent years — told WWD that she felt like “The Rose Garden was a very important message for me, because I rediscovered myself in the rose garden. “

Anderson spent decades in Malibu, California, and recently revealed she was unhappy there.

“A few years ago, I gave up at some point and needed a change,” she admitted in an interview. Better Homes and Gardens At that point “I thought, ‘Well, I guess that’s what people think of me.’ When I moved back to Canada, I was not in a good place.

She continued: “I don’t know what happened in the last few decades, but I feel like I’ve drifted away from who I was. I felt so sad and lonely. I just felt misunderstood. Not realizing, I felt like I was really screwed, that my whole life was a collection of mistakes.

Anderson, who shares two grown sons: Brandon Thomas Lee, 28, and Dylan Jagger Lee, 26, with ex-husband Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, 62, admitted she internalized some of those decisions.

“I was hard on myself, and I thought I put my family through too much and put my kids through too much. I got to the point where I wanted to move house and disappear and be in my garden. Decided to go.